I suppose to be fair the UK isn't so much better. The police can make these requests themselves. They have an oversight group, but they rubber stamp everything it seems. Hundreds of thousands of requests per year.

From the story it appears that some bloke sent a threatening email to the girlfriend of one Kashyap Patel
FTFY

Most Chinese phones use Android. Google could be huge there, but choose not to be.

They gave the Chinese government access to Chinese user's data years ago. They don't seem to have an issue with governments gaining warrantless access to their systems.

If you care about privacy, go Android. Google does require warrants, and doesn't operate in China due to the warrantless access requirement.

It will, you can side load them.

Mine is a Pro as well. They just keep failing on me. One stopped seeing the remote after boot for a few minutes, and the other stopped getting any network connectivity (wired or wireless) for several minutes after boot.

The Mi Box is just an Android TV box, so you can run Kodi and use whatever network sharing method you like.

Aren't they Wallmart's own brand, as in innately shit?

I've liked Panasonic TVs before, but now they have sold the business to a Chinese company I will have to properly evaluate one when the time comes. My main Panasonic is from 2012 and still going strong. It's used as a dumb display with an Nvidia Shield, which Nvidia has replaced twice outside of warranty. Their hardware may be unreliable crap, but at least they give you a replacement for free.

Honestly, if you don't care about games, get a Mi Box, not a Shield.

If you don't have a Wallmart account, it becomes a dumb TV, which is a significant improvement for many people.

The analogy doesn't really work for two reasons. Firstly copyright infringement is a civil matter, not criminal. Secondly they were informed about the copyright infringement, but declined to cut off the customer. It was a request to stop providing service that was allegedly being abused, going against their own Terms of Service.

This is still the right decision. Aside from it being bad if companies can be forced to enforce their own ToS, there has never been a trial to determine if the copyright infringement actually took place, and if the right person was identified. These claims are notoriously unreliable.

Television wasn't nearly do addictive as social media. For a start, it's a one way medium. Social media lets you respond. The closest TV gets is stuff like phone poll voting, which was heavily regulated in a lot of countries.

Lockheed focuses on reliability of weapons, rather than quantity. As we have seen in Ukraine and now in Iran, quantity is often more important. Ukraine uses a lot of civilian grade material in drones, for example, as does Russia. Shear numbers and low cost are more important than military grade component reliability.

Four of the top five and five of the top ten games on Are We Anti-Cheat Yet's list are marked "Denied", which it defines as "Games where the developers have explicitly stated that they will not enable the anti-cheat solution to work on Linux or have denied the possibility of Linux support".

It really is simple. Rust zealotry is 100 percent fact and provable.
Ubuntu 25.10.
What is a foundational tenet of Linux? "We do not break user-space."
But, we do for Rust. Why? Because Rust MUST move forward at speed. Can't pass tests? Fuck it. Works good enough.
Breaks user-space? Yes, but not all the time and not for most people. We are accepting Rust CoreUtils for no other reason that it must be.
It has been decreed. Ubuntu about CoreUtils is Bill, "Fuck it, we'll do LIVE!".
Large performance hiccups, failing tests? Does not matter. Pushing it live will bring the issues to light and we can fix it all over time.
What? That is not how this has ever worked. We do not break user-space. Especially on purpose so we can speed up Rust development.
Rust replacements should exist. Rust replacements should make there way into the systems we are using every day to make things more secure. Rust replacements should work though and not break user-space. If is not an acceptable replacement if it were written in C, then it is not one just because it is written in Rust. Real commands, real scripts, real jobs fail. Anything that works as a drop in replacement should be accepted. (Preferably because it is provably better, not just, "Written in Rust though!". Anything that does not, should not be a default in the release and should stay in the background, getting better till it is ready.

Anything other than that is religious zeal, not making a better Linux.

Centrifugal gravity doesn't really work. The Soviets experimented a lot with it, and the US did a little bit too.

Mars is the place to go. Decent amount of gravity for humans to live on, resources to live off.